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Author: Lucy Golding
Genres: Upmarket/ Book Club Fiction
1952: Dorothy Whittingdale is the last person to see her married lover before he vanishes from Paddington station under a cloud of scandal, leaving her, days after a secret birth, alone with what she can never tell.
Present day: translator Clair Brightman, unravelling after walking out on the life she was about to start, is drawn into decoding Dorothy's letters for a celebrity historian chasing his next bestseller. In a snowbound Cumbrian cottage, buried in seventy years of coded diaries and love letters relayed across false trails, Clair uncovers a family Dorothy hid even from herself, and finds the courage to stop hiding her own.
A dual-timeline novel about the secrets we keep to survive, and what it costs to finally put them down.
For readers of Kate Morton's The Lake House, Clare Chambers's Small Pleasures, Rachel Hore's A Week in Paris, and Natasha Solomons's The Song of Hartgrove Hall.
Author: Lucy Golding
Genres: Upmarket/ Book Club Fiction
1952: Dorothy Whittingdale is the last person to see her married lover before he vanishes from Paddington station under a cloud of scandal, leaving her, days after a secret birth, alone with what she can never tell.
Present day: translator Clair Brightman, unravelling after walking out on the life she was about to start, is drawn into decoding Dorothy's letters for a celebrity historian chasing his next bestseller. In a snowbound Cumbrian cottage, buried in seventy years of coded diaries and love letters relayed across false trails, Clair uncovers a family Dorothy hid even from herself, and finds the courage to stop hiding her own.
A dual-timeline novel about the secrets we keep to survive, and what it costs to finally put them down.
For readers of Kate Morton's The Lake House, Clare Chambers's Small Pleasures, Rachel Hore's A Week in Paris, and Natasha Solomons's The Song of Hartgrove Hall.